Summary
HE'S NEVER PREDICTABLE, has always loved North American theatre and knows that, in moving from the Arches to the Tron, he's leaving an experimental arts lab for a theatre that needs to attract a wider audience. So it's perhaps not surprising that for his first show as Tron theatre director, Andy Arnold has chosen a play already widely celebrated and loved in Canada and the United States, if never before seen in Scotland.
First produced in Toronto in 1999, Michael Healey's The Drawer Boy was inspired by what happened when Healey appeared as a performer in a documentary piece called The Farm Show, at a festival in rural Ontario. It charts the intensifying relationship between a self-absorbed young actor researching rural communities and the two older men on whose farm he works. As rural and urban cultures clash, buried truths start to be revealed.See the full content of this document
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Going Out: The Drawer Boy
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